Friday saw millions of people come out once again to protest against the Military Council ruling Egypt since the fall of Mubarak (the SCAF), while they insisted the elections would go ahead. This, in spite of the fact that many liberals and progressive political parties were expressing doubts about participating in the electoral process, while announcing the formation of a new National Rescue Government headed by Mohammed El Baradei. The weekend also saw the clashes move to the Cabinet Palace, where more demonstrators' blood was spilled by the repressive forces of the regime. Today, Monday, it was elections day and on the first one hour, more than a hundred complaints of irregularities were made. Participation has been feeble. Many thousands said that they were voting with their protest in Tahrir. Many people understand that this vote validates the current regime and the eventual new regime being born in the shade of the SCAF. [Castellano] [Français] [Esperanto] read full story / add a comment

On the weekend 19-20th a new wave of mass protest all over Egypt broke out because of the systematic violence of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) against the Egyptian masses. People are tired of its dictatorial behaviour, the use of extreme force against protesters, the military trials that in 10 months have ended up with 12,000 comrades rotting in jail, their censorship, the torture, kidnappings and selective murder of activists. People are tired of the military council hijacking the banners of our revolution to continue the same old dictatorship through other means. People are tired of the sectarianism they promote to divert us from our real fight for justice, equality and freedom. [العربية] [Català] [Castellano] [Français] [Ελληνικά] [Italiano] read full story / add a comment

As we enter the fifth day of mass direct action by the Egyptian people all over the country against the ruling military council (the SCAF), we talked with our anarchist-communist comrades in Cairo to know what demonstrators on the streets think about the dealings between the political parties and the SCAF to speed up the power transfer deal and the possible referendum on this issue. [Français] [Castellano] read full story / add a comment

Bigger than life, the militant and syndicalist path trodden by Valéro took him from the struggles in support of Indochinese independence to that of Algeria. From 1954 to 1956, he was also to play a pivotal role in the North African Libertarian Movement (MLNA)read full story / add a comment

Update from our comrade Yassser Abdullah in Tahrir Square, Cairo, who calls the surprise resignation of the Sharraf government a bluff, stating that the real power lies in the hands of the SCAF and that the international community (Arab League, EU, USA) will support them to the very end. On the other hand, the political parties and the Muslim Brotherhood have abandoned Tahrir and the thousands who are left fighting are the ordinary people from Egypt who are tired of being fooled around and want deep change and all power collectively in their own hands. For background information check the previous article "The Egyptian masses rise up again to complete their revolution!". [Italiano] [Castellano] [Français] read full story / add a comment

For more than 2 years, the counter-revolution in Egypt has been in the form of power sharing between 2 sectors of the state and the bourgeoisie. On the one side, the Muslim Brotherhood, which represents the spare wheel of the mercantile bourgeoisie and Western states to prevent any social revolution, were running civil affairs. [Français]

English translation of the overview of early Italian anarchists in Egypt, from Leonardo Bettini, "Bibliografia dell'anarchismo, volume 2, tomo 2: periodici e numeri unici anarchici in lingua italiana pubblicati all'estero (1872-1971)" (CP editrice, Firenze, 1976), translation by Nestor McNab. Via Lucien van der Walt. Lucien van der Walt note: This is NOT a history of anarchism in Egypt as a whole, least of all of its important impact on the Arabic-speaking and Greek population, which can be found in work by writers like Tony Gorman. Nonetheless it is valuable, and not previously widely available in English. Worth noting for contemporary reflection is the destructive role of I. Parrini's [aka "Un vecchio” aka L'Orso /"the Bear"],"anti-organizationalism in disorienting the movement in the late 1800s. This was overcome in the 1900s, a period of great advance for the movement in the country. There is also much of interest, even if incomplete, on the role in the unions and popular education, although it grossly underestimates the successes, especially among the indigenous.

This essay seeks to address the subject of the Egyptian revolution by following the narrative of the revolution in the 2013 documentary Al Midan (The Square) by Jehane Noujaim. [footnote: Jehane Noujaim. 2013. Al-Midan (The Square). [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2486682/.] The question under investigation here is: How is the revolution – its dynamics and its capacity – narrated in this piece of documentary film? Basically, I want to know, how the director and its narrators give meaning to this recent part of Egyptian history.